Thursday, December 28, 2006

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Say buongiorno to Aussie rules footballer, Campbell Brown, and Leslie Kwok, Singaporean national swimmer/businessman.Prego, prego. You're welcome. There'll be more where that came from in 2007, if it kills me. Cause I'm here for you, my Bellas.

Yes, Michelle, we are so grateful that you just torture the hell out of yourself to go and find these pictures. We realize that you must just be whipping yourself with a cat o nine tails just to have to force yourself you to look for them.

Monet, schmonet. What ever happened to some nice canines playing poker on velvet? Youz got no class.

ev, I wasn't sure about the red speedo shot, so I ran it past Dave. I was like,

"Is this a little too, um --"

"Vulgar?" he interjected.

"Well, lewd, I guess, for the blog, with Leslie's, em, burgeoning interest. I mean, I like to keep a certain modicum of decorum, and usually post pics that are interesting because of what's going on on the guy's face, maybe his upper body."

So Bellas, I just finished reading Jessica Inclan's "Reason to Believe." Has anyone else read it? It's a terrific story, extremely imaginative and such an interesting tack to take in a para. At the same time, I was struck by the amount of undefined french in the book. Now, I speak french so I didn't have any problem with it, but I wondered if anyone else did? I think she should think about putting a glossary in the book. A lot of phrases were pretty advanced, and certainly couldn't be figured out by their similarity to english. It was WAY more advanced than your usual Duke who speaks french and peppers his speech with phases like "ma petite." Did anyone else find that they had a hard time with it?

Don't get me wrong though, it's one of the more imaginitive paras I've read recently and the dynamics between the h/h and her family were fascinating.

Daccord, MaryKate! You know, I didn't realize that about "When You Believe," the first, and my French is perty pedestrian. But that's a great point. I'll be you could write her and ask about her decision not to put a glossary or define anything. Was any of it self-explanatory in context?

Anyway, remember she hung with us one day? Asked us what we wished we'd done that we hadn't, and what we'd done that we wish we hadn't? Did I get that right? Oh, merde.

Sure will, ev. But don't forget that this is the guy who pretty much forbade me to talk about Nathan Kamp after he was sick of hearing me talk about trying to get an interview with him.

Ames - This is after last night Michelle telling me that she trys to go for "tasteful" man shots. Just kidding, Michelle! LOL! But I know what you mean, I spent all day opening the commenting function and minimizing the blog itself cause of the hunks! SNORT!

Hey Bellas, you've all been lively the last several days, and I've enjoyed all the chatter. Marilyn, your granddaughter is just the cutest thing - I loved the picture where she's holding the hem of her dress, and the one where she's a chick - too precious!

Rach, I'm glad you're still on break and visiting with us - it's like old times :)

Amy! Missed you. Glad to see you making a rare but valuable appearance.

Ev, I heard this Rocky movie was more like the first one - would you agree? Sad about Adrian (in the movie). She's truly the heart of Rocky.

MK (aka book pimp), I am already in debt from your other recs, and I will happily go bankrupt if this book is up to par. Haven't read "Jacob" yet, but it's in my possession. Oh and btw, I bet you'd have a fun blog! You always come up with the coolest ideas. I think of you as our renaissance Bella *g*

Julie, what can I say - you always make me laugh, you're so darn funny! Hey, did you get "W,ML" yet? Mailed it Friday, and I almost kept it for myself just cuz it's a brand new copy, but the spirit of Santa (or is it Jesus?) showed me the way.

Right now I'm reading Janice Maynard's "Play with Me", and the first story has a fantasy about a princess and her "gardener". Having met Janice, it's difficult to imagine some of those dirty thoughts coming from her - guess it's one of the reasons I adore her so LOL.

Michelle, listen to Dave's "advice" about the speedos, because what he's really trying to say is "if you post him, they will come" ;)

If this blog was about decorum, my membership would have been revoked loooong ago. I say tasteful and decorum aren't as much fun as lewd and vulgar. I wouldn't know how to act.

MK & Jules, I get giddy when an author responds to me too. Heck, I get giddy when Queen Bella replies to one of my emails! It's like, yeah they're just regular people too, but then it's like "But she wrote "Over the Edge" - Sam, Stan, Jules! Oh my!

Hey, Bellas! I had a really cool night. First, I went to a little partay with my old writing group. I don't see them too often anymore, but it was great cause one of the women was in visiting from Alaska.

One of us, Swati Kaushal, just had her second novel picked up by Penguin India. She's an unbelievably bright, elegant writer, and she's going to GuestBlog for us in January! You just have to meet her; I think you'll love her, too. She's already got an awesome, really fun blog planned, right up our alley.

Then, Dave and I went out for a little bite, part of my Christmas gift to him. I almost just shared TMI, but I erased it before anybody could get hurt...

So, I'll see youz tomorrow. MK came up w/ a good blog topic we'll do over the weekend. Should I be paying her or something?

Glad you liked the red speedo. It reminded me of a David Duchovny poem, a riff he did on a William Carlos Williams piece: